Bydgoszcz Flights

[The Cat]

hi ya ive just checked the brum flight and its come up at 126 each.how did you manage to book it for 48 thanks bruno

By booking weeks ago when they first came out i am afraid

[smiles]

You want to think yourself lucky, we had all the flights booked on the friday from Manchester to Poznan and then found train times for saturday to Bydgoszcz hotels on the friday and the airline cut the flights leaving us to have to get flights from another airport to another city in Poland.

 

In the end though its a trip not to miss GP at Gollobgszcz and then the GP challenge final

[The Cat]

You want to think yourself lucky, we had all the flights booked on the friday from Manchester to Poznan and then found train times for saturday to Bydgoszcz hotels on the friday and the airline cut the flights leaving us to have to get flights from another airport to another city in Poland.

 

In the end though its a trip not to miss GP at Gollobgszcz and then the GP challenge final

Too true! Sorry to hear about the airline messing you about...

 

[marcus16]

due to work commitments i cant fly out to poland until saturday.i see there are flights out of stansted arriving at poznan and bydgoszcz later on in the day but one arriving in wroclaw at 1120 - i know its a fair distance but could any one tell me a rough distance and whether it would be viable to catch a train (timewise)pleeese

[Mama]

It's rather kind of "mission impossible"!

 

You'll have 2 train connections, but 1st of them is really impossible:

 

Wrocław Główny 11:35 - 15:46 Piła Główna (fast train)

Piła Główna 15:53 - 17:17 Bydgoszcz Główna (stopping train)

348 km, 2nd class normal ticket costs 47,00 zł

 

Wrocław Główny 13:35 - 17:42 Inowrocław (fast train)

Inowrocław 17:47 - 18:42 Bydgoszcz Główna (stopping train)

318 km, 2nd class normal ticket costs 46,00 zł

 

The train schedule could change after summer holidays ...

 

If you'll take the connection with changing the trains, the best way is to buy one ticket for whole trip (from Wrocław to Bydgoszcz by Piła or Inowrocław - you should point it at the ticket office).

 

If your travels start at Friday evening (18:00 Polish time) and end at Monday morning (6:00 Polish time), the cheapest way is to buy "tourist ticket" ("bilet turystyczny" in Polish). For now it costs 60 zł (2nd class) and 80 zł (1st class) and you can travel all fast and stopping trains during all weekend. Buying this ticket you should show your ID (the number should be written at the ticket).

[GARY POPPS]

Mama, could you please advise me,i,m looking at booking a flight to Lodz and then getting the train up to Bygoszcz saturday morning,for the Grand Prix in September.

Do you think this would be ok?

 

 

 

[Mama]

Łódź is OK, but a little bit far from Bydgoszcz (229-259 km - depends on train - from Łódź Kaliska to Bydgoszcz Główna) ... You'll have 2 direct, fast trains from Łódź Kaliska to Bydgoszcz Główna:

08:56-12:55

11:59-15:39

 

Eventually you'll have two connections with changing the trains (all of them are stopping trains):

 

Łódź Kaliska 10:12-13:27 Toruń Główny

Toruń Główny13:31-14:29 Bydgoszcz Główna

 

Łódź Kaliska 13:02-14:35 Kutno

Kutno 14:39-16:21 Toruń Główny

Toruń Główny 16:26-17:23

 

I suggest to leave the train at the station Bydgoszcz Leśna (this train at 08:56 goes another way, rest of them stop at this station) - it's last stop before Bydgoszcz Główna, 5-8 minutes earlier. Than you can take the city bus (each of them go near the Polonia Stadium) and leave it at 3rd stop. Or eventually go by foot - it's about 15-20 minutes

 

 

But the easiest way is to take the RyanAir from London Stansted (07:15) to Bydgoszcz (10:20) - Boeing 737, flight number FR2476. At the Bydgoszcz airport you'll take the city bus nr 80 and go straight to the stadium

Edited April 21, 2008 by Mama

[GARY POPPS]

Mama,Thank you for your excellent information and advice.

The reason i,m choosing Lodz is totally down to price,Bydgoszcz flight is now really expensive.

Thanks again.

[marcus16]

It's rather kind of "mission impossible"!

 

You'll have 2 train connections, but 1st of them is really impossible:

 

Wrocław Główny 11:35 - 15:46 Piła Główna (fast train)

Piła Główna 15:53 - 17:17 Bydgoszcz Główna (stopping train)

348 km, 2nd class normal ticket costs 47,00 zł

 

Wrocław Główny 13:35 - 17:42 Inowrocław (fast train)

Inowrocław 17:47 - 18:42 Bydgoszcz Główna (stopping train)

318 km, 2nd class normal ticket costs 46,00 zł

 

The train schedule could change after summer holidays ...

 

If you'll take the connection with changing the trains, the best way is to buy one ticket for whole trip (from Wrocław to Bydgoszcz by Piła or Inowrocław - you should point it at the ticket office).

 

If your travels start at Friday evening (18:00 Polish time) and end at Monday morning (6:00 Polish time), the cheapest way is to buy "tourist ticket" ("bilet turystyczny" in Polish). For now it costs 60 zł (2nd class) and 80 zł (1st class) and you can travel all fast and stopping trains during all weekend. Buying this ticket you should show your ID (the number should be written at the ticket).

 

[marcus16]

mama thanks for your excellent advice and info - i guess i'll have to rethink my plans . as gary says the reason for wroclaw was purely financial

[bruno]

Mama,Thank you for your excellent information and advice.

The reason i,m choosing Lodz is totally down to price,Bydgoszcz flight is now really expensive.

Thanks again.

i booked the flights from birmingham last month and its cost the 3 of us about 165 pound each.is this what you found?its a bit annoying when they cost less than 50 pound when they first went on sale.how well im told it will be worth it from people who have been to bydgoszcz before.my travelling buddies werent to impressed when i told them it was extra 100 pound!